A list of characters in the Ramona Quimby universe.
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The Quimby Family
Ramona Quimby
- Animal Motif: Cats and rabbits, the latter especially in books where she was younger and her character was less developed. Her mother and some of the neighbors affectionately refer to her as a "bunny," and she responds to this by wearing paper rabbit ears when she is younger and twitching her nose like a rabbit when she is older, though she grows out of this. Being called a rabbit/bunny made her feel adorable and safe in her family's care. She is also shown as being very fond of cats, including the family cat Picky-picky. When she is shown how to print the letter Q in her last name, she quickly discovers that it can be easily made into a rear-facing cat, and she persists in using it even after learning to write in cursive. The cat-eared Q thus becomes a signature that all of Ramona's friends, family, and teachers easily recognize. For a book presentation in third grade, she is assigned a book about a cat and chooses to wear a cat mask, using a then-popular real-life Meow Mix cat food commercial as the theme for her presentation. Cats are also perceived to be curious, mischievous, strong-willed, and generally affectionate unless provoked to anger - all traits that Ramona herself possesses.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Zigzagged. She starts out as a serious pain in the neck to Beezus, but as time goes on, they grow closer. However, Ramona still annoys Beezus on occasion, and sometimes vice-versa.
- Ascended Extra: Started out as merely the Annoying Younger Sibling to Beezus in the Henry Huggins books before becoming the protagonist of her own series.
- Babysitting Episode: In Ramona's World, she volunteers to take care of Daisy's cat for a week, and is tasked with looking after both him and her baby sister Roberta for a short while.
- Berserk Button: Being treated as if she's amusing when she's trying to be serious sets her off.
- Bratty Half-Pint: In the Henry Huggins books, she went through a "terrible twos" phase.
- Butt-Monkey: Pretty accident-prone; this is the girl who got the stomach flu and thought she was a nuisance due to a misunderstanding on the same day.
- Character Development: Over the course of the series, Ramona grows from a Bratty Half-Pint into a mature, rational and wise young lady while still retaining her enthusiasm and zest for life.
- Cool Big Sis: A sign of Ramona's growing maturity is that she looks forward to becoming one to her baby sister Roberta, enthusiastic about the prospect of teaching her about all the joys and struggles of life that she's been through herself.
- Daddy's Girl: Is as creative as her father and loves spending time with him. The narrative even straight-out says she's "her father's girl".
- Deuteragonist: In "Beezus and Ramona", she's the deuteragonist to Beezus's protagonist. This lasts for that book only.
- Didn't Think This Through: Many of Ramona's problems result when she jumps into something without considering the consequences first, typical for children her age. For example, when she makes a crown out of plant burs and wears it on the way home from school, she soon finds out that she can't get it off because the hooks in the burs are stuck to her hair.
- Does Not Like Spam: Hates oatmeal to the point that thinking about it while nauseous makes the nausea worse. She also doesn't like peas or tongue, although she enjoyed the latter until she found out what it was.
- Genki Girl: She's described as someone who "likes to be excited" and "the cheerleader type" by Beezus.
- Girliness Upgrade:
- In Ramona the Pest, she trades the overalls she wore in the Henry Huggins books and "Beezus and Ramona" for dresses as she enters kindergarten. This makes sense for the time the first books were written: pants and overalls on girls were verboten in schools. In the later books, she goes back to wearing pants most of the time. This is likely due to each book taking place in the year it was written, with "Ramona Forever" taking place in the 90's when girls wearing pants had become commonplace.
- In Ramona's World, as she becomes a preteen, she starts to gain more feminine interests than she had before, spending less time with Howie in favor of her new female friend Daisy, playing dress up and enjoying fancy clothes, watching a romantic soap opera on TV, and wishing she had long hair like Daisy does.
- Handwriting as Characterization: Ramona's tendency to draw on her letters (drawing cat ears onto her last initial, for instance, and putting frowny faces on her O's) ties into her being a Ms. Imagination. Her misspelling her name in earlier books (first with a slew of "I"s and "T"s, then as "Ranoma") characterises her as a very young girl.
- Improvised Clothes: In Ramona the Brave, when she loses one of her shoes to a dog, she staples some pieces of paper together to make a sandal.
- Kiddy Coveralls: Ramona, when first introduced, is almost always wearing overalls when she's not obligated to wear nice dresses — and is a messy, trouble-making, Bratty Half-Pint to her beleaguered older sister Beezus. She grows out of it eventually.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: Is a good-hearted, well-meaning girl despite her faults, and she's very genial towards both Picky-Picky and Daisy's cat, Clawed.
- Large Ham: She often goes all out whenever she's excited or in a bad mood.
- Laser-Guided Karma: A mild case. Howie's sister, Willa Jean, annoys Ramona and Howie in the exact same manner that Ramona annoyed Henry and Beezus in the first book. Not that Ramona would ever admit that she acted that way.
- Middle Child Syndrome: Ramona finds herself facing this when her mother is pregnant, and later has a baby. She feels insecure about losing her status as The Baby of the Bunch. But before long she comes to terms with it.
- Ms. Imagination: Likes to play pretend and a lot of her mishaps happen when her imagination runs away with her.Neighbors: Have you ever seen a child with such imagination?
- One-Note Cook: She claims to only be able to make Jell-O and French toast when her parents challenge her and Beezus to make dinner for the night (in response to the girls refusing to eat tongue). Subverted, when she and Beezus are able to successfully prepare an edible dinner consisting of chicken, cornbread, rice, peas, and pears, even when missing a few ingredients and making a mess of the kitchen.
- One of the Boys: For most of the series, her closest friends are Howie and Davy.
- Plucky Girl: Fearless and feisty, Ramona never gives up when faced with a challenge.
- Puppy Love: Her first crush is on Davy in kindergarten: she loves chasing after him to try to kiss him, and she finally succeeds at the school's Halloween celebration. Her next crush is on Danny, a.k.a. "Yard Ape," in third grade, though she won't admit it because "officially" they're rivals.
- The Scapegoat: Ramona hates staying at the Kemps' house because she's forced to babysit Howie's bratty little sister, Willa Jean, and is always blamed by Willa Jean's grandmother Mrs. Kemp when the younger girl does something wrong since Ramona is older and "should have stopped her" or "should have known better".
- Sick Episode: Caught the stomach flu briefly in "Ramona Quimby, Age 8".
- Tantrum Throwing: In earlier books, daycare-, preschool- and kindergarten-age Ramona is predictably prone to doing this when something goes wrong, though she does it much less as she matures and grows older.
- Tomboy: Enjoys some things stereotypically considered boyish, such as wearing pants, having her hair short, playing messy and athletic games outside, and having more boys as her friends than girls. In Ramona's World, however, she becomes more of a Tomboy with a Girly Streak, as she envies new friend Daisy's long blonde hair and is also shown playing dress-up with Daisy at one point, taking great pleasure in the fancy shoes and dresses she tries on.
Beatrice "Beezus" Quimby
- Adaptational Attractiveness: Somewhat. Although she's by no means ugly, she's described in the books as being a little bit gawky and having acne like an average teenager (something she's rather sensitive about). In the Ramona and Beezus film she's played by the lovely and completely clear-skinned Selena Gomez.
- Bratty Teenage Daughter: She can be quite grumpy and opinionated at times, especially towards Ramona. She doesn't actually become a teenager until the last three books, though.
- Cool Big Sis: Can be a role model for Ramona as well.
- A Day in the Limelight: "Beezus and Ramona" is the only book written from Beezus's perspective, coming after the Henry Huggins books but before Ramona took over the rest of the series.
- Easily Embarrassed Youngster: Always more easily-embarrassed than Ramona, especially as a teen.
- Gag Haircut: In ‘’Ramona and Her Mother’’, she refuses to let her mother cut her hair, and uses all her savings to get a haircut from a local Beauty School. Unfortunately the girl she had wanted was now a graduate and the student she gets decides to do what he wants with her hair, insisting she’ll love it when he’s finished. She ends up with a super-teased, thickly-sprayed 80s “big hair” do and, as Ramona thinks, ends up looking like “an unhappy seventh grader with 40-year-old hair.”
- Hypocritical Heartwarming: She can be quite mean to Ramona, but she will never let anyone else pick on her.
- In-Series Nickname: Her real name is Beatrice, but Ramona started calling her Beezus when she was little and unable to pronounce her name correctly. It becomes a major issue in later books when she grows tired of the nickname.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: Treats Picky-Picky with utmost love and respect. She becomes very protective of him when the family gets mad at his eating the jack-o-lantern in "Ramona and Her Father", even snapping at her father for driving Picky-Picky to it with his cheap cat food diet.
- Lack of Imagination: She feels like she has no imagination in comparison to Ramona, and struggles with things like painting and creative writing.
- Like Mother, Like Daughter: Personality-wise, she seems to take after her mother (sensible, matronly, and practical-minded), while Ramona is more like their father (creative and spontaneous). The neighbors say that Beezus is "her mother's girl".
- Not So Above It All: Despite being more mature compared to Ramona, she has her moments of rebelliousness, especially in the later books as she becomes a teenager.
- In "Ramona and Her Father" she has an argument with her father about his smoking habit, which startles Ramona very much.
- In "Ramona and Her Mother", she refuses to let her mother cut her hair because she wants to get a fancy haircut at a salon like the other girls.
- In "Ramona Quimby, Age 8", she has an argument with her mother over a sleepover that she wants to go to.
- In "Ramona's World", she secretly gets her ears pierced and wears a scarf around her head to cover them at home, not wanting her parents to know. Thankfully, they don't make a big deal about it.
- Odd Name Out: After Roberta is born, Beezus is the only one of her sisters whose first name doesn't start with the letter "r."
- Rise of Zitboy: Being an appearance-conscious young lady, she worries about her pimples a lot and constantly scrubs her face to get rid of them.
- Those Two Girls: With Mary Jane in "Henry Huggins".
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Played with. She's neither very stereotypically feminine nor very tomboyish, so she's the tomboy to Mary Jane's girly girl, but often the girly girl to Ramona's tomboy.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: In "Ramona and Her Mother", she saves enough money to get a fancy haircut at Robert's School of Hair Design, but she gets stuck with an inexperienced hairstylist who gives her a haircut that looks like a "cheap wig".
- You Were Trying Too Hard: In Beezus and Ramona, she struggles with painting an imaginary animal in art class, believing herself to have no imagination. When her first attempt at painting a pegasus doesn't come out too well, her teacher advises her to just relax and have fun with her paints. To Beezus' surprise, she thinks of Ramona's imaginary lizard and ends up creating a wonderful painting of a dragon that breathes cotton candy flames and has lollipops for spines.
Roberta Quimby
- Ancestral Name: She's named after her father, Robert.
- The Baby of the Bunch: Takes Ramona's place as the youngest member of the Quimby family.
- Baby See, Baby Do: When Ramona sticks her tongue out, so does Roberta.
- Baby's First Words: Her first word was "Mo-mo", in an attempt to say Ramona's name.
- Bratty Half-Pint: A little annoying, though it's not really her fault since she's only a baby.
- Does Not Like Spam: She doesn't like strained peas and ends up making a mess when Ramona tries to feed them to her.
- Small Role, Big Impact: She doesn't actually show up until the end of "Ramona Forever", but her impending birth is an important part of the plot beforehand.
Dorothy Quimby (nee Day)
Ramona's mother. Originally a stay-at-home mom, she started working part-time in "Ramona the Brave" to help the family make money and then full time in "Ramona and her Father" after her husband lost his job.
- Alliterative Name: Her maiden name is Dorothy Day.
- Career Versus Family: Ramona doesn't take it too well that her Mother isn't staying at home like she used to, though that could be more due to the fact she's being babysat by Howie's and Willa Jean's grandmother, who doesn't like her.
- Embarrassing First Name: Mrs. Quimby doesn't like being called "Dorothy" and refuses to name any daughters after herself.
- Good Parents: Specifically Good Mother: Most of the time. Though she can be stern, she's usually pretty good with her daughters.
- Morning Sickness: The first sign that she was pregnant with Roberta was throwing up.
- Sudden Name Change: In Beezus and Ramona, her maiden name is Haswell, but in all other books, it's Day.
Robert Quimby
Ramona's father and aspiring artist. He was laid off in "Ramona and Her Father" but got a job as a cashier at a supermarket. Frustrated with the stress of the job, he went back to college to get his teaching certificate; however, due to being unable to find work as a teacher, he returned to work at the supermarket as a manager.
- Character Tics: Ramona knows her father is worried when he starts making jokes more often.
- Compressed Vice: He starts smoking in "Ramona and Her Father" but quits before the end of the book. Since he's unemployed at the time, he likely takes up the habit due to stress, which explains why it's short-lived.
- Good Parents: Specifically Good Father: In the same vein as his wife. He means well, even if he messes up sometimes.
- Raised by Grandparents: He was raised by his grandmother and often quotes her sayings when he wants his daughters to behave.
- Starving Artist: Though not exactly starving, he has difficulty finding work as an art teacher and has to work at a supermarket to make ends meet for his family.
- Stepford Smiler: Not normally, but when he tells jokes, he's often actually worried.
Aunt Beatrice
Dorothy's younger sister and Beezus's favorite aunt. She's an important secondary character in "Beezus and Ramona" but doesn't show up again until "Ramona Forever".
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Was annoying to Dorothy when they were children, Beatrice being the messy, tomboyish one and Dorothy being the prim and ladylike one.
- The Bus Came Back: After six books of absence, she returns to marry Hobart.
- Cool Aunt: Her visits are highly anticipated by Beezus and Ramona.
- Demoted to Extra: In the first book Aunt Beatrice is established as an important part of the Quimby family and frequent visitor to the house but, aside from being referenced in "Ramona and Her Mother", she doesn't make an appearance until six books and four years (29 years in real-world time) later in "Ramona Forever". The TV series and movie expand her role by incorporating her into plotlines from the other books, though.
- Green-Eyed Monster: When Beezus feels guilty over not loving Ramona sometimes, Bea makes her feel better by explaining that she and Dorothy used to fight a lot as young girls, too. She relates a story from their childhood about how she got jealous of Dorothy's beautiful new autograph album and ruined it by writing her name on every single page.
- In-Series Nickname: Gets called "Bea".
- Official Couple: With Howie's uncle in "Ramona Forever"; they dated and got married.
Picky-Picky
- Big Eater: Has eaten the tongue or fish the girls refused to eat, and a big chunk out of a pumpkin once. Justified in that he hates his cheap cat food and will do anything for something tastier.
- Cats Are Mean: To Ramona anyway. Justified in that she was mean to him when she was very young (she used to use his fur to wipe paint off her hands, among other things), and he never got over it. He mellows out towards her a bit in "Age 8", though, at least enough to cuddle on the couch with her while she's sick.
- Does Not Like Spam: He hates Puss-Puddy, the cheap cat food the Quimbys have to buy for him when they can no longer afford the brand he used to eat.
- Due to the Dead: When he dies in Ramona Forever, Beezus and Ramona hold a small funeral and make a gravestone for him out of a wooden board.
- Grumpy Old Man: Well, cat, but he's been a member of the family even before Ramona was born. Beezus can remember when he was a tiny kitten who climbed the curtains.
- Trademark Favorite Food: He loves melon rind.
Mr. Quimby's grandmother
Ramona's great-grandma.
- Apron Matron: From what little we know of her, she was quite stern and straitlaced. One of her favorite sayings was "A smack at the table is worth a smack on the bottom."
- Cool Old Lady: Still, she was a loving grandparent and raised her grandson the best she could. According to Mr. Quimby, even when money was tight during his childhood, she always managed to buy paper for him to draw on.
- The Ghost: She never makes a physical appearance, although Mr. Quimby references her wisdom many times in the books.
- Posthumous Character: She is implied to be deceased. Mr. Quimby always speaks of her in the past tense, and Ramona thinks about how she probably wouldn't have liked her father's grandmother after being annoyed by her sayings too many times.
Neighbors and Classmates
Henry Huggins
Beezus's friend, and star of his own series. He's an important character in "Beezus and Ramona", and makes a few appearances in later Ramona books.
- Hero of Another Story: He's the main character of his own series Henry Huggins, which mostly takes place before the Ramona series.
- Nice Guy: He's a very friendly boy and very seldomly acts mean.
- Precocious Crush: When she was five, Ramona decided that she was going to marry him.
- Promoted to Love Interest: In the Ramona and Beezus film, Beezus is shown to have a crush on him, and they end up dating. In the books, they do have some subtle Ship Tease moments, but nothing ever comes of it. He's last mentioned in Ramona And Her Father, and quietly disappears from the plot after that, implying that he and Beezus drifted apart as they grew up and had new groups of friends.
- Ship Tease: It's rather one-sided, but Beezus is very loyal towards Henry. In the Henry Huggins books, she frequently gives him assistance to reach his various goals (prominently in Henry and Beezus), and in Henry and the Paper Route, she comes to his defense when he gets into a fight with Scooter (causing all their school mates to tease them about their relationship). In Ramona And Her Father, Beezus gets all flustered when she and Henry are chosen to play Mary and Joseph for their church's Christmas Nativity play.
Davy
A boy in Ramona's class. In kindergarten, she thought he was cute and would chase him around trying to kiss him. He has trouble in school, and Ramona often tries to help him out.
- Disappeared Dad: His parents are divorced and his father is implied to no longer be in his life.
- Embarrassing Nickname: Hates being called "Davy-in-the-Gravy".
- Put on a Bus: He's never seen again after "Ramona and Her Mother", since Ramona transfers to a different school.
- To Be Lawful or Good: Ramona is often reprimanded for trying to help him out in class instead of doing her own work.
Howie Kemp
- Aloof Big Brother: He doesn't get along very well with his little sister Willa Jean and finds her annoying, though they do care about each other.
- Characterization Marches On: In "Beezus and Ramona", Howie is considered the noisiest little boy on the block and is far more rambunctious than the overly serious boy he is in the later books. The simplest explanation for this is that he mellowed as he grew older.
- Lack of Imagination: His imagination isn't nearly as wild as Ramona's, which she notices.That was the trouble with Howie. If she offered him a glass of bug juice, he said, "That's Kool-Aid." If she said, "It's been a million years since I had a Popsicle," he said, "You had a Popsicle last week. I saw you."
- Mellow Fellow: He's the calm, even-tempered type and rarely gets overly excited about anything.
- Mr. Fixit: He has an interest in building and making things. When Ramona makes a valentine for him, she draws a hammer, a saw, and some nails on it.
- Platonic Life-Partners: He and Ramona remain good friends throughout the series.
- She Is Not My Girlfriend: His reaction to being called Ramona's boyfriend by his Uncle Hobart. Ramona expresses the same sentiment.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Throughout the earlier books, he and Ramona tend to butt heads due to their opposite personalities. They still manage to be friends, though, and by second and third grade they hardly ever argue anymore.
Willa Jean Kemp
- Annoying Younger Sibling: She frequently annoys Ramona and Howie when they want to spend time together. To make things worse, Ramona is always blamed for whatever Willa Jean does by Mrs. Kemp.
- Bratty Half-Pint: She's going through the grumpy toddler phase.
- Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: Talks this way (pronouncing her "R"s as "W"s) in Ramona and Her Mother, though she eventually outgrows it by Ramona Quimby, Age 8.
- Girls Love Stuffed Animals: She owns a huge stuffed bear, named Woger after her neighborhood milkman Roger.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: At Uncle Hobart and Aunt Bea's wedding, Ramona is surprised to see how pretty Willa Jean looks in her flower girl dress and circlet.
- You Remind Me of X: Many characters note that she behaves a lot like Ramona did when she was younger, being bratty and demanding. Ramona doesn't like this comparison.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She is afraid of the furnace in her house's basement. Ramona and Howie often go down there so she can't bother them.
Mrs. Kemp
Howie's grandmother, who watches Ramona when she stays at the Kemps' house after school. She spoils Willa Jean but doesn't like Ramona, making her watch Willa Jean and then blaming Ramona whenever she does anything wrong.
- Hate Sink: She essentially functions as one. Although most adults in the series are shown to be flawed but well-meaning people in their own ways, Mrs. Kemp is the only adult to be unreasonably cruel towards Ramona, always blaming her for the bratty things Willa Jean does.
- Karma Houdini: Despite treating Ramona like crap and using her as a free babysitter, Howie's grandmother ends up getting exactly what she wants (not having to watch Ramona anymore).
- Kick the Dog: In "Ramona Forever", after Willa Jean destroys an accordion that was a gift from her Uncle Hobart, Mrs. Kemp not only blames and punishes Ramona but shames her about the incident in front of Uncle Hobart. This hurts Ramona so much that she later cries at dinner while recounting the incident to her family.
- Misplaced Retribution: No matter what terrible thing Willa Jean does, Mrs. Kemp will always find a way to blame Ramona for it because she's older and "should have stopped her" or "should have known better".
- Needlework Is for Old People: She sews and is a grandmother.
- Pet the Dog:
- In Ramona and Her Father, she gives the Quimby family a pumpkin from her sister's farm for Halloween.
- After Ramona saves Bea's and Hobart's wedding by finding the missing ring, Mrs. Kemp actually thanks Ramona, smiles at her, and tells her she looks pretty. After three books of treating her like crap, this was long overdue compensation.
- Pushover Parents: She almost never bothers to discipline Willa Jean and always pawns the blame for her mishaps onto Ramona.
- Textile Work Is Feminine: She has some skill at sewing, making fluffy sheep costumes for Howie and Willa Jean and later using basting stitches to attach rings to a pillow for her son Hobart's wedding.
- Unnamed Parent: Or grandparent. Her first name is not revealed.
Uncle Hobart
Howie and Willa Jean's uncle, who eventually marries Ramona's Aunt Beatrice.
- Affluent Ascetic: He's described as being very rich due to working in the oil industry, but arrives in a somewhat beat-up van and wears plain T-shirt and jeans.
- In-Series Nickname: Mr. Quimby refers to him as "Old Moneybags", though not to his face.
- Momma's Boy: He has a close relationship with his mother, Mrs. Kemp. When he was working in the oil fields in Saudi Arabia, he would dream about her apple pie.
- Nice Guy: He's first introduced bringing gifts for his niece and nephew. Although Ramona doesn't like him at first, he turns out to be calm, patient, understanding, and kind-hearted. No wonder Aunt Beatrice likes him.
- Smoking Is Cool: He doesn't actually smoke, but when he was in high school, he would imitate famous tobacco-chewing baseball players by chewing licorice and spitting it on the grass.
Susan Kushner
A girl in Ramona's classes throughout the series, and one of the few that Ramona doesn't get along with. In kindergarten, Ramona was obsessed with tugging on Susan's curls and yelling "boing!", but their full-blown animosity didn't start until first grade when Susan copied Ramona's art project and Ramona retaliated by destroying Susan's work. Ramona makes peace with her at the very end of "Ramona's World" when she realizes that Susan is only the way she is because of her mother.
- Always Someone Better: For Ramona. She's a Teacher's Pet who always behaves perfectly and does everything expected of her.
- Berserk Button: According to Ramona, she gets really mad (and overreacts) when boys call her "Snoozin' Susan".Ramona: When boys call you a name, you're just supposed to get a little bit mad and not go telling the teacher.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Susan Kushner, who would become Ramona's rival throughout elementary school, first appears in "Beezus and Ramona" as one of a bunch of kids invited to Ramona's party.
- Friendly Enemy: Even though they're rivals, Susan and Ramona sometimes have occasional friendly moments. In third grade, during the hard-boiled egg fad, they compare lunches on the bus and are excited to see that they each have an egg.
- Hidden Depths: At Ramona's tenth birthday, after everyone calls Susan out for being rude by saying that there was spit on the cake, she cries and reveals that she actually hates having to be perfect all the time and knows that nobody likes her. This helps Ramona feel more sympathy for her, and the two girls understand each other a bit better.
- Insufferable Genius: A pint-sized version, obviously, but Susan tends to get on her classmates' nerves (and especially Ramona's) because of how she prefers to flaunt her intelligence. In Ramona's World, she brings an apple to eat instead of cake at Ramona's birthday party, announcing that blowing out candles is unsanitary and that eating cake can give you cavities.
- Lack of Imagination: Implied in Ramona the Brave, when she copies Ramona's paper bag owl and gets praised by the teacher for her "wise old owl", which makes Ramona so angry she crumples up both owls. When their teacher asks what Susan's owl is looking at, she suggests "another owl", which Ramona thinks is dumb when she could have said "a witch riding on a broom", "a mouse", or "a bat".Ramona: I just got mad. Old copycat Susan thought she was so big.
Mrs. Quimby: Susan is the one I feel sorry for. You are the lucky one. You can think up your own ideas because you have imagination. - Put on a Bus: After her prominent role as Ramona's rival in Ramona the Pest and Ramona the Brave, she doesn't appear in the next four books apart from a brief cameo in Ramona Quimby, Age 8. She comes Back for the Finale in "Ramona's World", however.
- The Rival: She and Ramona have a rivalry up until "Ramona's World".
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Ramona dislikes her for being annoyingly perfect all the time.
- Stepford Smiler: Is a "Miss Perfect" type that behaves impeccably with adults, yet is being pushed by her mother to be perfect.
Daisy Kidd
Introduced in "Ramona's World", she quickly becomes Ramona's best friend. Her family mirrors Ramona's in many ways, and Ramona thinks that Daisy is absolutely perfect.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: Her family owns a cat named Clawed and she's a sweet little girl.
- Last Episode, New Character: She appears in the last book of the series, "Ramona's World".
- Nice Girl: Ramona takes a liking to her immediately, and the feeling is mutual.
Danny / "Yard Ape"
A boy in Ramona's third-grade and fourth-grade classes. Even though he starts out teasing her and stealing her eraser, they become friends and she quickly develops a crush on him.
- The Ace: He's liked by all his classmates and his school papers always have "Good Work!" or "Excellent!" written at the top.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: For Valentine’s Day Ramona and Yard Ape give each other deliberately off-putting gifts. Yard Ape gives Ramona a poem referencing her Last-Second Photo Failure in the school yearbook, while Ramona gives him the photo of her pulling a disgusted face. Both of them find these gifts amusing.
- Insult Backfire: Ramona gives him the nickname "Yard Ape", which he enjoys. He tries calling her "Bigfoot", but she only responds with "that's Superfoot to you".
- Only Known by Their Nickname: He's only referred to by his real name (Danny) in the series when addressed by adults. Even the narration calls him Yard Ape.
- UST: Well, in the sense that 9-year-olds can have romantic tension. Ramona and Yard Ape both clearly have crushes on each other, but they don't want to admit it to each other, and the series ends before they're old enough to start dating.
